uprush

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The rush of water from a breaking wave onto a beach. Also called swash.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An upwards rush.

v. To rush upward.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

intransitive v. To rush upward.

n. Act of rushing upward; an upbreak or upburst.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To rush upward. Southey, Thalaba, xii.

n. A rush upward.

Etymologies

From up- +‎ rush. (Wiktionary)

Examples

I have heard parts of the opera in workshop performances over the years; in fact, I feel our friendship was sealed when I heard its lush opening in a Manhattan performance space several years ago, and thrilled to the uprush of music.

When I have studied or talked with seekers who have had this variety of the spiritual experience, they have told me of a joy that passes understanding, an immense surge of creativity, an instant uprush of kindness and tolerance that makes them impassioned champions for the betterment of all, bridge-builders, magnets for solutions, peacemakers, pathfinders.

If we feel sexually attracted to the same gender, we convince ourselves this uprush of inner feeling—often rooted in something gone wrong in our formative years—is actually genetic, or God-ordained, or the expression of who we “really” are.

She hadn't known she'd be able to sense it, but the keystone was part of her, formed of her magic and linked to her, and so she'd felt that first fierce uprush of energy as the keystone began to give up its spell.

He was passing within fifty feet of the creature, and despite the abnormal and curiously detached psychological state in which he had been ever since leaving Jupiter, he felt a sudden uprush of excitement, wonder-and sheer personal pride.

It was heavy, this vapour, heavier than the densest smoke, so that, after the first tumultuous uprush and outflow of its impact, it sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and watercourses even as I have heard the carbonic-acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.